Christophe Blain

He subsequently worked as an illustrator for various magazines before returning to drawing comics, inspired by David B., Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar.

In the story, set in the 18th century, Isaac Sofer, a penniless painter, becomes a pirate when he accepts a commission involving a rather involuntary sea crossing to America.

His award-winning comic Quai d'Orsay (Weapons of Mass Diplomacy, in the English version)[3] about the supposed daily routine at the French Foreign Ministry, was made into a film by Bertrand Tavernier in 2013.

In 2021 he drew the comic Le Monde sans fin [fr] (World Without End), about climate change, written by Jean-Marc Jancovici.

In 2002, he received the Angoulême International Comics Festival Prize for Best Album for Isaac the Pirate and again in 2013, together with Abel Lanzac, for the second volume of Quai d'Orsay: Chroniques diplomatiques.